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Commemorations 2024 (Death: F. H. Andrews)
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2024-04-24
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2024-04-05 08:55:00
West Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season
[…] challenges, but Tom feels that the beauty of the setting make the challenges worth facing and it is this lake-side setting that makes West Green House Opera unique. The garden setting also turns going to the opera into a lovely afternoon. The garden is small enough to feel that your are enjoying opera within a National Trust property rather than a theatre set in the countryside.This year's festival opens with a gala concert featuring John Andrews conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra with soloists Soraya Mafi and Nicky Spence. The first opera production is Verdi's Falstaff, directed and designed by Richard Studer and conducted by Jonathan Lyness. Studer and Lyness have a long association with the festival dating right back to its early days. The production features Simon Thorp in the title role with John-Kristof Bouton, Galina Averina, Carolyn Dobbin, Trystan Llyr Griffiths and Lorena Paz Nieto.An intriguing concert offering is the collaboration between wine-expert […]
2024-02-26 07:40:00
Marking the centenary of Puccini's death, Opera Holland Park in his early Messa di Gloria
Chorus of Opera Holland Park, the City of London Sinfonia, conductor John Andrews with soloists David Butt Philip and Ross Ramgobin (Photo: Opera Holland Park)Puccini: songs & arias, Messa di Gloria; Eleanor Broomfield, Fflur Wyn, Philip Costovski, Joseph Buckmaster, José de Eça, David Butt Philip, Ross Ramgobin, Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia, John Andrews; Holy Trinity Church, Sloane StreetReviewed 22 February 2024Opera Holland Park launches its Puccini celebration early with a fine account his early and intriguing mass setting, plus a chance to preview the tenor hero in the Summer production of Tosca2024 sees 100 years since Puccini's death and Opera Holland Park are marking that by performing Tosca (in Stephen Barlow's iconic 2008 production) and Edgar (a great rarity on the operatic stage) this Summer. But on Thursday 22 February 2024 the company launched its Puccini commemoration early with a concert at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane […]
2024-02-18 05:00:13
Adapted from a Yiddish musical comedy number, the track became a sensation — and was used by the Nazi propaganda machine
2024-02-04 14:00:38
Pique Dame
Aziz Shokhakimov conducts Asmik Grigorian, Brandon Jovanovich, Violeta Urmana, and Roman Burdenko in the premiere of Benedict Andrews‘s production from Munich
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